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Articles by Knut Gjesdal
The cardiologist’s nightmare
- Knut Gjesdal
20.08.2013:
Electrical storm is one of cardiologists’ worst nightmares. Patients have to be repeatedly shocked out of ventricular fibrillation, and it is difficult to know what to do. Stian Ross et al. have reported on one such instructive case. Up until the mid-1990s, antiarrhythmic agents were used more...
Atrial fibrillation, physical activity and endurance training
- Sidsel Graff-Iversen,
- Knut Gjesdal,
- Astanand Jugessur,
- Marius Myrstad,
- Wenche Nystad,
- Randi Selmer,
- Dag S. Thelle
07.02.2012:
In long-distance running circles and among cardiologists there has long been an impression that the development of atrial fibrillation (AF) may be linked to long-term physical training. In this article we review published articles that may shed light on the question of whether physical activity of...